rticles PLOS template appears broken

Question

A fresh install of R, RStudio, tinytex and rticles returns the following error when trying to compile the PLOS template from the rticles package (under R markdown, from template):

! Argument of  has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.275 \section{Introduction}\label{introduction}}

Error: LaTeX failed to compile Untitled.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See Untitled.log for more info.
Execution halted

Inspecting the TeX file shows this on lines 274-275:

\hypertarget{introduction}{%
\section{Introduction}\label{introduction}}

It looks like it ignores the previous line and considers the bracket on l.275 to be superfluous, but I'm not savvy enough in LaTeX to figure out a fix. Is the template broken, or is there some solution for this?

I've tried this on multiple machines with the same result.